Established
Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Faculty
About 2,400 faculty members and more than 10,400 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals.
Students
- Harvard College: About 6,700
- Graduate and professional students: About 15,250
- Total: About 22,000
Alumni
More than 371,000 living alumni, over 279,000 in the U.S., over 59,000 in some 202 other countries.
Honors
48 Nobel Laureates, 32 heads of state, 48 Pulitzer Prize winners
Motto
Veritas (Latin for “truth”)
Real Estate Holdings
5,457 acres
Library Collection
The Harvard Library—the largest academic library in the world—includes 20.4 million volumes, 180,000 serial titles, an estimated 400 million manuscript items, 10 million photographs, 124 million archived web pages, and 5.4 terabytes of born-digital archives and manuscripts. Access to this rich collection is provided by nearly 800 library staff members who operate more than 70 separate library units.
Faculties, Schools, and an Institute
Harvard University is made up of 11 principal academic units – ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The ten faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees.
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